ABOUT US
Mark Williams and Sara Hirakawa … That’s us. A little about us that you may or may not know… We get asked a lot what our process is. How do we work together? It’s ever changing… We are a true collaboration of both of our efforts combined to make the image. Our pursuit is always to serve the picture.
Being married and working together, it's amazing how much time we spend together but we strangely never get sick of each other... We started dating while working on a college photo project together at RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology). So we've always had a working relationship from the start.
After graduating, we moved to NY to pursue individual careers as photographers. Mark assisted and Sara studio managed while developing our books. Over the years, our sensibilities inevitably merged together and we decided to team up after our wedding in 2003.
Soon after getting hitched, our lease was up in our East Village apartment and it was either move to Brooklyn for more space or out to Los Angeles. We’d already lived in Brooklyn, so we decided to try LA. Since then, we’ve shot for clients like Banana Republic, Neiman Marcus, Lucky Brand, Vanity Fair, Harper’s Bazaar, Marie Claire, Glamour, Time, Rolling Stone, Vogue Japan, Interview, ESPN, Capital Records, and many others. We still live in the west with our son, Eli.